[62177] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What *are* they smoking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Braun)
Tue Sep 16 15:11:05 2003
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:07:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Rich Braun" <richb@pioneer.ci.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
VeriSign stands to gain financially, take a look at this excerpt from an AP
news blurb published yesterday:
> Ben Turner, VeriSign's vice president for naming services, described the
service
> as a way to "improve overall usability of the Internet."
>
> People mistype ".com" and ".net" names some 20 million times daily, Turner
said,
> and internal studies show "the vast majority of users prefer a page like this
> than what they are getting today."
>...
> Currently, Site Finder sends lost Web surfers to both regular search results
and
> pay-for-placement listings, which are marked as such. Turner said VeriSign was
> partnering with two search companies he would not name.
>
> He would not disclose how much VeriSign would earn from those companies, with
> which it has revenue-sharing arrangements.
Anyone find out any details of the contracts which VeriSign has apparently
signed to profit from this little venture?
-rich
